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Grant Hutchinson
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Interface considerations.
Gadget accumulation.
Typography.

Maintainer of the Newton FAQ, Newton Glossary, and @newtontalk mailing list.

Tootcasting live from […]

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@glennf Hey, Glenn … do you happen to have any contact information for Jeremy Templer? I’m trying to track down if he has an archive of his “Newton Assist” columns that he penned for Macworld Australia.
January 8, 2026 at 5:18 AM
There is some amazing serendipitous connection between these two posts by @justsnook and @RetroViator …
January 8, 2026 at 5:15 AM
Thanks to @nulleric, I can now browse the #TinkerDifferent forums using an #applenewton device.
January 3, 2026 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think that 2025 was all that bad of a year, even considering that my amazing dad passed away last week at the age of 90. More good things happened than awful, quite frankly. Onward, everyone!
January 1, 2026 at 5:29 AM
Announcing the latest release of the Newton Glossary!

This edition contains 1,974 terms, definitions, acronyms, colloquialisms, cross-references, and trivia related to the #applenewton.

https://newtonglossary.com

Since the last update, 24 new terms have been added.

Check out the latest […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
December 21, 2025 at 5:56 PM
After a bunch of back and forth with some of the @getkirby team, it turns out that an issue I reported (involving extra spaces being inserted around links in excerpted text) was a quirk in my macOS High Sierra development environment, not Kirby.

¯\\_(ツ)_/¯ […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
December 11, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Only nine days behind on my feed after a well deserved vacation.

No spoliers, please.
December 6, 2025 at 1:39 AM
This update seems a bit ominous.
November 15, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Reposted by Grant Hutchinson
What we now know as the “social web” — or Web 2.0 — didn’t arrive until around 2004. But the first inklings of it were emerging a couple of years before. As usual, music was the harbinger. In this week's Cybercultural, I look at the beginnings of Last.fm and Audioscrobbler […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
The Kickstarter project for @bzotto’s book on the fascinatingly obscure Sphere computer is so close to be funded.

Go Computer Now!

https://gocomputernow.com/
Go Computer Now! - A Book About Sphere Corporation
gocomputernow.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Reposted by Grant Hutchinson
I've stumbled upon Marginalia Search, a non-commercial search engine for text-oriented websites. "Indexing the small, old and weird web" in their own words. A useful and pleasant discovery!

https://marginalia-search.com/
Marginalia Search
Marginalia Search is a small independent do-it-yourself search engine for surprising but content-rich websites that never ask you to accept cookies or subscribe to newsletters. The goal is to bring you the sort of grass fed, free range HTML your grandma used to write.
marginalia-search.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:43 AM
The font used for “Tower” in the Yoot Tower logo is Badloc, the first commercial typeface I designed while working at Image Club Graphics.
https://digipres.club/@misty/115516779942773835
Misty (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Yoot Tower website in January, 1999 https://web.archive.org/web/19990117024141/http://www.yootmacfirst.com/
digipres.club
November 10, 2025 at 4:40 AM
I think Apple missed their opportunity to change the name of Xcode to 26code.
November 7, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I can’t quite put my finger on what’s wrong with this feedback form …

🤔

#ux #paperprotyping #copypastefail
November 3, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Reposted by Grant Hutchinson
@stewf Saw this and for some odd reason immediately thought of you.
https://mastodon.social/@Edent/115480168593179186
Terence Eden (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image "Stylish beige"
mastodon.social
November 2, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Hollerith bingo card
November 2, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Reposted by Grant Hutchinson
@splorp See if that helps. Cant separate as it's the MG category.
November 1, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I realize that the hashtag @macgarden is using in these posts is to flag “Control Panels” and “Extensions”, but my brain keeps reading it as “Control Panel Sex Tensions”.
https://bitbang.social/@macgarden/115472440360928847
MacintoshGarden Feed (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image UnRound https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/unround Tired of the Mac being too friendly? Don't you wish that it would be less "curvy"? Well, one of the nuts at The Syzygy Cult thought so, so he made UnRound. UnRound will change all of the rounded #macgarden #controlpanelsextensions #1995 #macneilshonle #syzygycult
bitbang.social
November 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM